Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian's words made Fang Chen and others fall into deep thought. For researchers like them, they certainly hope that more companies will have the courage and spirit of sacrifice to develop core and basic technologies, but their experience and Let them also understand that businessmen seek profit, they are not qualified to force businessmen to do these things, and it is not easy for others to start a business.

So at the beginning, they just knew that a company called Dafeng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. was going to make their own chips, and they were already looking forward to it. Now that they knew that Meng Qian was going to challenge the foundation and full autonomy of the entire chip field, their emotions were extremely complicated.

First of all, they must be happy. They are happy to meet such an entrepreneur. At the same time, they are also shocked. They are shocked that a young entrepreneur has such courage. Difficulty is on the one hand, the key is to burn money.

How much does it cost to fully self-develop? 100 million? One billion? Ten billion? Even 100 billion can't be dealt with. Of course, Meng Qian's idea is worthy of encouragement and praise, but Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation, can it really afford this bowl of rice?

A nineteen-year-old young entrepreneur, perhaps, he is just a newborn calf not afraid of tigers?

This complex emotion made everyone silent for a while, not knowing what to say.

Meng Qian saw it and continued his statement, "After talking about the long-term goal, let's talk about the present. Craftsmanship, materials, and equipment are all my non-professional fields, so I can only pray for more opportunities in these three areas." There are so many talents, there is nothing to repeat here.

The main thing I want to talk about is the chip architecture. "

Meng Qian wrote X86, ARM, MIPS under the chip architecture while talking.

"Intel's chips, Microsoft's Windows, and the powerful Microtel alliance have successfully proved the terrible combination of software and hardware, but this has also led to Intel's operating thinking in the chip field being too closed, so regardless of whether X86 can be authorized, I believe I also know that some companies are talking about it now, but I personally am not willing to choose the X86 architecture because it lacks space for secondary development.

So when we have to use someone else's architecture, I personally prefer ARM and MIPS, which seem to be a little behind X86 now.

I heard that the Chinese Academy of Sciences will choose the MIPS architecture, right? "

Fang Chen froze for a moment, then nodded.

"Now that you know this, you should also be very clear about the biggest advantage of MIPS, openness, basicity and extensibility.

I personally support the choice of the MIPS architecture. If we want to face the computer directly, the MIPS architecture that can carry more instruction sets and greater scalability can give us more room for development.

What about the ARM architecture? As the same origin as the MIPS architecture, the ARM architecture has many similarities with the MIPS architecture, but in my opinion, the ARM architecture has some characteristics that attract me, because I have been full of curiosity about a market recently, that is Symbian mobile phone system.

According to news recently, Nokia will further develop and apply the Symbian system, and we will soon see Nokia's Symbian smartphone.

Microsoft has ruled the computer system for so many years, but they seem to be not very interested in the mobile phone system until now, but I am particularly interested in this thing.

I spent a lot of time researching this Symbian system, and at the same time, I also experienced the Symbian system. I personally think that the mobile phone system will have an immeasurable future, because it allows the mobile phone to change from a simple phone call and text message The thing becomes a multi-functional multimedia device that can have more applications.

Imagine boldly, if one day you hold a mobile phone, you can process files, conduct instant messaging, watch movies and even play large-scale games. Do you think everyone will prefer to use a mobile phone or a computer?

Even if everyone prefers to use computers, can you carry a computer with you anytime, anywhere? But you can hold a mobile phone anytime, anywhere, even on the bus, even when you go to the toilet.

So the Symbian system has given me a very large imagination space, and this imaginary future makes me full of expectations for the mobile phone system. For this reason, Dafeng Technology will start preparing the mobile phone system project team this year.

Correspondingly, one thing we need is a mobile phone chip that is more suitable for smartphones.

Looking back at the three architectures at this time, the advantage of X86 is performance in the final analysis, but in order to maintain this performance, bulkiness and power consumption are also the reality that the X86 architecture has to face.

Imagine how many problems the X86 architecture will encounter in realizing a small-sized mobile phone chip? Can the power consumption problem of the X86 architecture be solved smoothly on mobile phones?

Instead, it is the ARM architecture, which has fewer instruction sets and has greater performance at low frequencies. It will have obvious advantages in small chips such as mobile phone chips.

It can better achieve small size, low power consumption, and low cost, and in the mobile phone market, the performance of the ARM architecture will be more valuable, because mobile phones and computers have completely different information processing requirements.

More importantly, one of the disadvantages of the ARM architecture, the problem of system inconsistency, can be improved in the mobile phone market. As long as our mobile phone systems are unified, the inconsistency of the ARM architecture in the Linux system will end in the mobile phone field.

So in terms of chip architecture, my consideration is to use ARM and MIPS at the same time, but the directions of emphasis are different.

The computer chip project team uses the MIPS architecture to create more instruction sets and expand adaptability, aiming at the Microtel Alliance.

The mobile phone chip project team uses the ARM architecture and combines with the company's mobile phone system project team to focus on the production of mobile phone chips.

At the same time, I have another idea about chips, which is also inspired by the mobile phone market, that is, dedicated chips.

Now these chip architectures have a characteristic that they are universal, and being universal means that they are not dedicated, which means that a lot of resources are wasted.

For this reason, I am thinking about the future and market of special-purpose chips. In theory, the design cost and manufacturing cost of special-purpose chips will be greatly reduced. It is early enough, the plate is big enough, and the corresponding field is far-sighted enough. This is a future development direction of chips.

In terms of the system, if we can finally decide on the ARM architecture and the MIPS architecture, the system will naturally be Linux.

But let me explain to you first that the system project of Dafeng Science and Technology will give priority to the development of mobile phone systems, and then turn to computer systems.

This computer system will naturally be connected to our computer chips in the later stage.

Hopefully if we do beat the Microtel someday, we're using our own chips and our own systems.

As for EDA software, there is not much to say for the time being, it is mainly a difficult problem.

So let's reorganize our thinking at this time. The company's long-term goal is to build a complete chip industry chain and a huge ecological chain formed by independent systems based on six foundations.

And the breakthrough of this ambitious goal is the field of smartphones that has not been valued by Microsoft yet!